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Yeap you are correct. I caught one when I was 12 for show and tell at school. Unfortunately, my 12 year old brain thought it would be a good idea to keep it in the freezer for some reason and it died and it literally fell apart.

Yeah. They bite like fuck if you piss them off, but it hurts no more that a fire ant bite bite. I believe the venom is only toxic to certain types of bugs and mammals. I was bitten by a yellow and black orb weaver, it didn't do much, the actual biting hurt worse than the aftermath.

Going to have to disagree. I was once running through the woods at night on a Boy Scout camping trip and I ran through a web. You know these webs right away when you touch them because they have amazing tensile strength. Anyhoo, after flailing my face wildly I feel a bit of a prick on the back of my neck. I proceed to make that fucker goo with my hand, but the damage was done. The pain wasn't intense immediately like a bee or wasp sting, but it built to a blistering crescendo of pain over the next hour. I'd say it hurt 2-3 times worse than a bee sting, but lasted much longer.
And it swelled to the size of a lemon.

i had a beautiful huge furry wolf spider outside my kitchen window. i used to love watching her as i washed dishes. she laid an egg sack, and i didn't have the heart to squash it. i wish i had, because baby spiders are tiny, and can get in through little cracks in doors and windows. i was fighting an infestation for days. now 2ce a week i spray h2o diluted 100% orange oil around my doors and window frames to keep them away. do yourself a favor, and squash those sacks!!!!!

The best bit is where someone points one out to you. You look where they are pointing, but can't see it. "Where?" you say. "There! Right there!". You look harder, straining towards the bushes. Suddenly, your eyes refocus, and it's right there. Three inches from your eyeball. Then, suddenly, you realise there are dozens of them, all around you.

"These spiders do not seem to form either beneficial or harmful relationships with humans. As they weave their webs in bushes and near flowers, they might present a nuisance for gardeners or flower pickers." NO WORRIES THEY DONT HARM HUMANS UNLESS YOU FUCK WITH THEM

Yeah, I remember the original article, I think it was back when newspapers were still actually paper based.

Though I do remember seeing a huge one down in Sydney a few years ago - would go past it every day on my way to work and it constantly made its web thicker and thicker. Never saw it catch a bird, but got some big moths and cicadas.

The hockey mask is the top of the sternum. The 'piece of fruit' is it's abdomen. The funny grey thing that's just out of focus is a large fly that it's in the process of wrapping up for later. Here's a different angle of the same one.

at first glance, it looked fake to me...thought it was nothing more than a great halloween prop. second glance, i noticed that the spider isnt in the same place in every picture. now i cant seem to get the image out of my head.

I live in Florida, and I walk into the webs of their cousins almost every night during summer. Not only do I have to worry about Slenderman, but these fuckers too. I hate Florida sometimes. Pterodactyl mosquitoes suck too, btw.

The golden orb spider....i think, i had to sleep with one of these guys 4 feet above my bed when i was back packing in the rain forest Australia a few years back,he didn't move at all the whole time....needless to say i had to be very drunk to get any sleep

As creepy as these spiders are, I think someone probably placed a dead bird in this picture. It seems highly unlikely that a bird would get caught in one's web, so I think whoever took the picture just placed a dead bird there, or a bird incapable of flying, either way when one of these spiders get something too big in their web they usually just try to cut it out of the web. This spider isn't going to eat a bird.